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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

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For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. EdSurge: Tell us a little about the Speak Up Survey. What is it?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” “Why Fixing the Pipeline Alone Won’t End Edtech’s Diversity Problem ,” says Edsurge. Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “University CS graduation surpasses its 2003 peak, with poor diversity.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” This Edtech Company Says It Uses AI. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Open Doors survey shows declines in new international students starting in fall 2016 , after years of growth.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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A few years after John Boyer began teaching world geography at Virginia Tech , a survey revealed that 58 percent of college-aged Americans could not locate Japan on a map. Sixty-nine percent could not find the United Kingdom. Boyer raced ahead undaunted. He loved the scope and implications of his subject. The great thing about geography is.

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